Putting in a plug for a colleague's book in OUP's Very Short Introduction series global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My colleague writes beautifully here.

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote about being torn between academia and wilderness, scholarship and nature. And hunting deer, and Austyn Wohlers' great novel Hothouse Bloom. William Cronon and Alyssa Batistoni. And the way a river flows to the sea. www.thenation.com/article/envi....

The #medieval #podcast episode with me is up: www.medievalpodcast.com/episodes/the... It was a delight speaking with Dr. Danièle Cybulskie about a more global #MiddleAges and what one learns when one does not start or end in Europe. #MiddleEast

The Travels of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sawma with Thomas A. Carlson — The Medieval Podcast

Pretty much everyone has heard about Marco Polo and his thirteenth-century journey from Italy to China. But just as the Polos were making their way east, two other intrepid travellers were making the ...

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"The Story of the Judge & the Thief," a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular in West Africa: HMML preserves digital copies of 40+ manuscripts containing this story, located across 11 libraries in #Mali. Read a translation by Dr. Ali Diakite & Dr. Paul Naylor: https://bit.ly/4y2dBLo

Arabian Nights in Timbuktu: The Story of the Judge and the Thief

“The Story of the Judge and the Thief, a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular...”

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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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John Tolan calls @caperry.bsky.social's Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt "[a] painstaking, thoughtful study." Read his full @thetls.bsky.social review here:

The fluid boundary between slavery and freedom among the Jews of medieval Cairo

Writing about Passover, Moses Maimonides (d. 1204), the leader of Egypt’s Jewish community and one of the foremost philosophers and theologians of

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There is a new Cambridge elements out today, _ Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible_ by Ilan Peled. It is free to read for the next two weeks, so get reading. 🪄 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

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New open-access book for #MedievalSky on Jewish craftspeople in the European Middle Ages, with chapters on weavers, book binders, metal workers, and more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #HistSTM @dgb-mem.bsky.social

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

A fantastic two year postdoctoral opportunity in Persian Literature here at UC Davis. Come join us and share widely with folks in MLA and Middle East studies! mesana.org/resources-an...

Middle East Studies Association

The Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies invite applications for the newly established Bita Daryabari Endowment Postdoctoral Scholar/Lecturer position...

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Reading now: Arbella Bet-Shlimon's necessary challenge to one of Middle East studies' most enduring forms of racism: the disparagement of Assyrians. The piece traces the genealogy of atrocity denial and how scholarly practices reify racism. Will be assigning this! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very proud to announce the publication of my first book, "Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism." Buy it from @ucpress.bsky.social for 30% discount (use promo code UCPSAVE30) at: www.ucpress.edu/books/feelin... And, its open access! Download for free: webfiles.ucpress.edu/oa/978052042...

Thomas Jefferson argued tirelessly that Black people should be exiled from The United States while also fathering four children with his enslaved concubine Sally Hemings. Join us for a frank discussion of how race and racism shaped the founding of America. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race

Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race in New York - Checkout. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines Thomas Jefferson’s complicated and often contradictory views on race and...

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More on what we are losing. My own pedagogical responses are still loading…

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."

The DoSSE project will be hosting John Latham-Sprinkle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) for a hybrid talk on 'What Can Medieval Georgia Teach Us About Child Labour?' next Monday, 12.00-13.15. Details for online and in-person attendance below:

maybe take a break from the constant stream of horrors and listen to a podcast? I dunno, man. We're trying. #medievalsky AmericanMedieval.com

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interviews @caperry.bsky.social, author of Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History. Listen to the episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/craig-perry-...

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt

A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East

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Hello Bluesky #BookSky! The Public Scholar is out today from @hopkinspress.bsky.social. You can buy it everywhere books are sold. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2uj47sa7 Order from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and I'll sign it - moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-... You can read an excerpt here. (1)

The Public Scholar (medieval content)

Hello everyone! David’s new book, The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook, launches today! Here’s an excerpt, focusing on my modern medieval origin story,...

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www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #Medieval Jewish London History Day 10 May 2026 The Barbican @barbican.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #Medievalists

Medieval Jewish London History Day | Barbican

This one-day history festival brings London’s medieval Jewish community back to life, just steps away from the City’s original Jewish quarter.

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NB: an excellent series up of Zoom lectures from tomorrow through July. Premodern Jewish Epistemes and Their Contexts.

Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik@mbikoeln.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lecture Series: History of Knowledge, Histories of Knowledges: Premodern Jewish Epistemes and Their Contexts. Come one come all! For a zoom link, follow the QR code on the poster 👇 #jewishstudies #skystorians

ICYMI: A review article about my recent book! Still fresh for Passover. momentmag.com/book-review-...

Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

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ICYMI: A review article about my recent book! Still fresh for Passover. momentmag.com/book-review-...

Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

momentmag.com

Just in time for Passover. Thanks to Moment Magazine and Jacob Wirtschafter for this review of my recent book from @princetonupress.bsky.social! momentmag.com/book-review-...

Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

momentmag.com

Just in time for Passover. Thanks to Moment Magazine and Jacob Wirtschafter for this review of my recent book from @princetonupress.bsky.social! momentmag.com/book-review-...

Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

momentmag.com

newbooksnetwork.com/slavery-and-... Here is a link to an interview I did about my new book. Thanks for the chance New Books Network!

newbooksnetwork.com/slavery-and-... Here is a link to an interview I did about my new book. Thanks for the chance New Books Network!

The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...